Improvement in hitching-posts



c. F. ROTH.

HITCI'IING-POST.

No, 182,711, I PatentedfS'ept. 26, 1876.

l k I UNITED STATES PATET EEIGE,

CHARLES F. ROTH, OF MADISON COUNTY, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO ALBERT H. ADKISON, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HITCHING-POSTS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,711, dated September 26, 1876; application filed August 29, 1876.

To all whom 'it may concern Beit known that I, CHARLES F. ROTH, of the county of Madison and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Hitching- Post; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a vertical section of the invention. Fig. 2 is an inverted planof the same with the base-plate removed, and also partly in section.

The object of` my invention is the construction of a bitching-post in whichlthe part for the attachment of the halteris retained concealed in a case by means of a lock and key, and therefore not accessible to persons unfurnished with the latter.

The invention consists of a bell-shaped metallic case, in which a vertical slotted bar, surrounded at its lower end with a spiral spring,

is retained by a spring-catch bar, the latterbey through an opening in the summit of the case. D is the catch-bar, resting in the supports d d, which arise from the base-piece B, and surrounded by the spiral spring d. Said bar is pointed at its inner end to iit into a notch 011 the vertical bar O when the latter is at its lowest position within the case. The bar D is driven back by means of a key, E, constructed so as to press on the upwardly-inclined face of said bar as it is turned in the hole e in the side of the case provided for its insertion. The lower end oi' the bar C projects through the base-piece B, and is provided with a nut to retain it within the case. To provide for the necessary vertical motion of said bar and attached nut, the center of the base-piece is made thick, and the opening through it widened below the inner surface of the base-plate.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new isl. A bitching-post composed of a hitching-bar retained within a surrounding case, and. released by means oi a key, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a bitching-post', the combination of the bitching-bar O, locking-bar D, spring d', and case A, constructed and arranged substanti-ally as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

CHARLES F. ROTH. Signed in presence of- A. W. WILKrNsoN, G. L. WILSON. 

